Description
First edition of The Wrong of Slavery, The Right of Emancipation by Robert Dale Owen.
Octavo, 246pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bookplates removed from endpapers. Clean text, solid text block. Some rubbing to tips of spine, dampstain to middle of spine. (Sabin 58024)
Robert Dale Owen is best remembered as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution. As a member of Congress from Indiana, he pushed legislation through Congress founding the Smithsonian Institution and served on the first Board of Regents.
